Tim Lamming’s book title The Vulcan Story gives an excellent insight into the reasons why the Vulcan (and others) where designed the way they were.

The need for a large bomb load made for a large fuselage and therefore deep wingroots would accomodate engines and undercarriage and at the same time present a sleek and smooth airframe that would be fast and fuel efficient.

It was a design that was utilised right from the start and as far as I recall there were no other designs that used engine pods.

John.

What about a re-paint?

John.

Nice shots there PU-597, pardon my ignorance but what is the significance or story behind the control column in the glass case in your first post?.

Regards,

John.

Nice tune too!!, bet the in cockpit conversation went something like……

Wooooohhh yeeeaaaahhhhhh muuthhaaaa!!!!!!, and we get paid for this too.

John.

Would that be the one at Boscombe Down?.

John.

Just had a very interesting phone call with Retro Aviation and they are currently re-building the Tornado to a more desirable condition.

He was not able to give a price for it yet as there is still some work to do to make it safe (det cord in canopy etc.), one thing he did say is that it was from the Airworks fiasco where some perfectly good airframes were damaged due to incorrect maintenance?, someone please shed a bit more light as I have no idea what he was talking about 😮 .

The key parts of the conversation I do remember were that it was dismantled properly and is totally undamaged, the radome and canopy glass/windscreen are all there he is just trying to source the front screen frame to put it all back together.
The interior will be 70% complete and have some ground power (possibly), also he is trying to get hold of two seats ready for the sale.

It goes without saying that with all this work to do before the sale it might not be on the market just yet.

Regards,

John.

Sorry to bump up an old thread but I have read Rowland Whites excellent book Vulcan 607 and in it there is a colour picture of 771.

The accompanying caption states that Sir Frederick Handley Page personally chose the colour scheme of gloss black and silver with a distinctive red cheat line, there is also the most impressive photo I have ever seen of a Victor inverted, rolling off the top of a loop!!!!!.

Regards,

John.

They captured it and than … I don’t know. Sorry!

No need for the sorry wieeso!!!, I didn’t now about it either 😮 .

A quick Google this morning brought up some history about it, never really flew properly and was given up as a bad idea, I think the test pilot would have been bricking it walking out to that one 😮 .

Regards,

John.